Fake: Islamic Radicals Flocking to Southern Ukraine
Russian media regularly portray Ukraine as a threat to world security. Earlier this year scores of Russian sites were awash with fake stories claiming that ISIS was operating training camps in southern Ukraine.
StopFakeNews #106 with Christi Anne Hofland
The latest edition of StopFake News with America House director Christi Anne Hofland. Among the disinformation debunked this week are Clinton ballot stuffing fakes, militant Motorola’s death coverage…
Fake: Roshen Factory in Lipetsk Russia Making Profits
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s Roshen confectionery company located in Lipetsk, Russia is operating normally and making a profit, announced Russian President Vlaldimir Putin, while speaking at the…
Fake: Ukraine Will Have to Return Lviv to Poland
Former Ukrainian member of parliament, currently leader of the Union of Left Forces party Vasyl Volha has questioned Ukraine’s territorial integrity, claiming that because both the Ukrainian and Polish…
Fake: Ukrainian Censorship in Reporting Militant Motorola’s Death
This week Russian media publicized a story claiming that Ukrainian authorities had banned coverage of separatist militant leader Arsen Pavlov’s death. Pavlov’s was widely known by his alias Motorola.
StopFakeNews #105 with Marko Suprun
The latest edition of StopFake News with Marko Suprun. Among the disinformation debunked this week are two fakes connected to the death of the Russian militant known as Motorola, claims that Russia sanctions…
Fake: Pre-Marked Ballots Cast for Hillary Clinton Discovered
A fake news story published on the American Christian Times Newspaper web site claiming that “tens of thousands” of pre-marked ballots cast for Hillary Clinton were discovered in a warehouse was widely disseminated by both Ukrainian and Russian media this week.
Fake: Transcarpathia Separates Economically from Kyiv
Russia’s national REN TV channel published a story claiming that Transcarpathia, a regions in western Ukraine bordering on Hungary, separated economically from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
Fake: Russia Sanctions Running Ukrainian Economy into the Ground
Ukraine’s prolongation of sanctions against Russia have caused a tumultuous Russian response in particular from Duma Foreign Affairs Committee Member Sergey Zheleznyak, who said that by expanding sanctions against Moscow Ukraine’s President was running his country’s economy into the ground.
Fake: Russian Militant Motorola Killed by Latvian Mercenary
After Russian separatist militant Arseny Pavlov known as Motorola was killed by an explosion in the elevator of his apartment building in Donetsk, stories began cropping up on various Russian web sites…